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Magdalene Laundries - From the Vault
The Magdalene Laundries, operatied under the guise of reforming "fallen" and "wayward" women and girls, only to exploit and abuse those that were wor…
2 months, 1 week ago
184. Countess Constance Markievicz - Revolutionary Woman
Episode 184
Countess Constance Markievicz was an aristocrat, suffragist, artist and rebel leader. She was an integral part of te Easter Rising and in Ireland gai…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
183. Gisèle Pelicot - To Hell and Back
Episode 183
Gisèle Pelicot, a woman who should have been enjoying her retirement and provincial life had it all come crashing down when she was brought into a po…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
182. Fannie Lou Hamer
Episode 182
Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist and victime of teh Mississippi Apendectomy, a woman who history deserves to remember,
Hosted by Katie Charlw…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
181. Katherine Johnson - NASA's Human Computer
Episode 181
Katherine Johnson was a woman whose calculations at NASA helped launch men into space (and bring them home again) shattering barriers for women and B…
3 months, 1 week ago
From the Vault - William Dorsey Swann- Queen of Drag
It's Black History Month, so let's pull a story from the vault, that of one William Dorsey Swann, who entered the world enslaved and would be the bea…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
180. Robert Smalls Vs the Confederacy
Episode 180
Some stories from history are so impresive that they sound like you ripped them from a novel; an enslaved man steals a confederate ship, sails it to …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
179. Black Dahlia - Part 2
Episode 179
On January 15th 1947 a mother strolling with her toddler comes across a body in a vacant lot, a body that would become one of America's most infamous…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
178. Black Dahlia - Part 1
Episode 178
On January 15th 1947 a mother strolling with her toddler comes across a body in a vacant lot, a body that would become one of America's most infamous…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
177. John George Haigh - The Acid Bath Murderer
Episode 177
John George Haigh murdered at least six people over the course of five yers 1944-1949. A notorious fraudster he killed for convenience...and profit, …
4 months ago